Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Iran: No Justice for Victims of Downed Plane
Click to expand Image In this January 11, 2020, people gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Ukraine plane crash at …read more Source:: Human Rights...
International Criminal Court’s Decisive Moment
(The Hague) – Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should use their upcoming annual meeting to bolster the court’s delivery of justice for the worst crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The 19th session of the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties will start in The Hague from December 14 to 16, 2020, before moving...
Cluster Munitions: Condemn New Use, Production
Click to expand Image The point of impact of a unitary parachute-retarded blast and fragmentation Smerch rocket on a street in Barda. The impacts of …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Ukraine: Armed Groups’ Arbitrary Pandemic Restrictions
Click to expand Image People listen to an armed man with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic as they wait before crossing the line of contact …read more Source:: Human Rights...
US: Biden Should Reinstate Landmine Ban
Click to expand Image A deminer works in Algeciras, Huila Department, Colombia in July 2020. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
UN: Deny Rights Council Seats to Major Violators
Click to expand Image A view of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, October 1, 2018. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Harsh Sentences for Alleged Hizb-ut-Tahrir Followers in Russia
Click to expand Image Supreme court appeal hearing held via videoconference, September 2020. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Russian Repression a Persistent Reality in Crimea
Click to expand Image Crimean Solidarity activists in the defendant’s box during sentencing, September 16, 2020. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Ukraine: Dozens Stranded in a War Zone
Expand Border guards on Checkpoint in Hnutove village, near Mariupol, Ukraine. © 2018 Getty Images (Kyiv) – Ukrainian authorities, in response to the threat of COVID-19, shut down all movement across the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, but they have not made adequate provisions for those who may be stranded as a result, Human …read more...
“We Live Like We Are Homeless”
“I am grateful for help. But sometimes it’s hard … The attitude here is: if you want to be left in peace, go back home. But where is home? Everyone who could, who had a place to go, had already left.” The ongoing war in eastern Ukraine has divided people’s lives there into “before” and “after.” For Iryna, “before”...
